We have worked with the NHS Choices video team and an animation company to produce a new screening animation, which in just 2 ½ minutes explains all the types of screening offered during pregnancy and for newborn babies.

What do Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Coca Cola have in common? Apparently they’re the 5 most valuable brands of 2017. So it’s likely that you’ll see their adverts, products and logos pretty much everywhere you look.

What do you like reading? When you're not at work, it could be all sorts of things. My 9-year-old son has discovered the joy of a good novel. He's just finished all the Harry Potter books and has started on …

Video and music tapes, analogue cameras, minidiscs, dial-up internet access, the ZX Spectrum, mobile phones the size of a small dog... You can really start to feel your age when you think to all the technology that used to be …

Some of you will have come to the UK National Screening Committee’s first stakeholder conference last December. As we blogged at the time, the event was a great success at enabling committee members and stakeholders to get together and consider …

Firstly, a very happy new year to all readers of the PHE Screening blog! The end of December is traditionally a time to reflect on the previous year and I'm sure many of you will have read many such articles …

Watch Dr Anne Mackie, director of screening in Public Health England, reflecting on 2015, calling it "a particularly exciting year for screening". Please note that you can turn on subtitles for this video.

About PHE screening

PHE Screening leads the national population screening programmes, which are delivered by the NHS. These identify apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk or a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment and better informed decisions.Find out more.